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USF St. Petersburg sophomore Andrea Coloma may be in the early stages of her degree, but she is certain she's on the right path.

Police departments are facing a new reality in the era of coronavirus. As familiar categories of crime fade, officers are being asked to handle unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable new assignments.

The events surrounding Tampa's annual invasion of the pirates begins on Jan. 21 with the Gasparilla Children's Parade.

A group of veterans who served at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan during the Afghan War say they can't get the Pentagon to declassify information about the toxins they may have been exposed to.

Two decades after Congress authorized the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, there's growing concern about whether DHS is doing enough to combat domestic violent extremism.

Iranians are watching their soccer team at the World Cup in nearby Qatar with mixed feelings about how to show support amid massive freedom protests at home.

People who work to assure the quality of Google search results are asking for labor rights.

There's been a long battle over which products should be called milk. The FDA aims to clear up any confusion, but dairy farmers say they don't need a federal agency making their life even harder.

Two weeks ago, the Jet Propulsion Lab lost contact with the interstellar spacecraft after engineers mistakenly pointed its antenna away from Earth. On Friday, it responded and is operating normally.

A visit to the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, by kayak. That's where Gov. Greg Abbott has installed a floating barrier made of giant buoys to deter migrants

New data shows that when people reach out to the Department of Children & Families Services, help is hard to find despite the agency's plans and efforts to contact recipients.

A charity organization with ties to New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has come under criticism for running apparently illegal automated calls to voters in advance of next week's hotly contested Democratic primary in North Carolina.

Mechanically tenderized meat — which has been punctured with needles to break down the muscle fibers and make it easier to chew — has a greater chance of being contaminated and making you sick.

The nation's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration is ending. Here's what is and isn't changing.

The uproar over the U.S. outbreak glosses over a bigger problem: Measles takes a tragic toll in poor countries. But a vaccine can effectively stop this deadly — and highly contagious — disease.

No compelling evidence of the wide-scale fraud Trump alleges has emerged in the two-and-a-half years since the election in Georgia or elsewhere, despite Trump's baseless claims.

An Instagram post claimed that Miami-Dade County banned Gorman’s poem from elementary schools. PolitiFact and WLRN found there was no countywide effort to remove this poem.

The killing of Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city council member and civil society activist who protested police violence, is being met by a huge wave of anger and indignation.

Irma is now a Category 1 hurricane. It came ashore in the Florida Keys and hit the rest of the state very hard. Miami, in particular, had high winds, heavy rain and flooding to deal with.

Since it was introduced as an ornamental plant a century ago, Brazilian peppertree has grown out of control in Florida. Researchers are releasing a tiny insect that may help stop the invasive plant.

The New York Yankees may be the most polarizing team in the U.S. In a new collection, Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team, writers share the stories behind their passions. In many cases, rooting for or against the team has little to do with sports.

What if the song "Baby Shark" stopped after just two stanzas? There's no Daddy Shark in sight at a Chicago-area zoo where an epaulette shark pup hatched this summer.

Synagogues in the U.S. have considerable security compared to many other houses of worship. The Hamas attacks have congregations refocused on the safety of worshipers.

The CDC said Americans 65 and older should get another dose of the updated vaccine that became available in September — if at least four months has passed since their last shot.

Tampa will dye about a half-mile stretch of the river near Curtis Hixon Park a bright shade of green on Saturday. A growing petition lists concerns that, while festive, the dye used is harmful to the environment.